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...young editors, ten-year-old Tommy Piper of Lock Haven (Pa.), reported the gist of it all in terse journalese: "The President . . . told about why he had come from Florida. The reason was very simple. He had come to talk to us so we would grow up to be good men like...
...Gist of the cannonade, in the words of Averell Harriman: "Any decision to cut [mutual security] is a decision to reduce the strength which is being built in the free world for our common defense against the threat of the Kremlin. A substantial cut would gravely impair our security...
Hardie made a farewell speech to a crowd of British newsmen. Its gist: "They can't sack me-I quit." A reporter asked when he would leave his $20,000-a-year job. "As soon as you gentlemen have gone," said gruff Steven Hardie, reaching...
Limited as his education has been, he can get the gist of a complicated legal document or accountant's report at a glance, and plunge into galvanic activity while other men would still be pondering. Conventional prudence often looks to him like niggling. When his lawyer advised him that a proposed step was not quite legal, Carter roared: "The trouble with you is you're such a goddam technical lawyer." On giving orders for a blistering editorial, he is likely to caution: "Don't put too god dam much Christianity in it. Libel? You trying to tell...
...greatly helped by the Churchill mission, has reached with its U.N. partners in the Korean war an agreement in principle that may be a solution to the Communists' campaign of conquest in Asia. Its gist: if the Communists, after settling for a truce in Korea, begin a new aggression, the U.N. should try to punish Red China by some means more effective than merely picking up the Korean war where it was left off. The plan is to put the decision in the form of a warning, or ultimatum, to be proclaimed through the U.N. when & if a Korean...